Running Dog
In the early days of our movement, it was mandatory that all members smoke cigarettes and refrain from speaking, but we realized those traditions were stupid. He/him/his/bark
- He can draft a minute, he can chair a meeting, he can rock up in Tirana & get told to fuck off. These things look simple, but they’re not - and they’re vital
- Tfw you’re so excited to tell GB News about your cool new overseas prisons that you forget to secure any overseas prisons
- Pretending your opponents have deliberately overseen “open, uncontrolled borders” for no reason other than to create chaos, doesn’t have echoes of anything I guess
- Seems incredible that “open borders” has morphed from the thing Jeremy Corbyn - the world’s most dangerous man - wanted to do to destroy Britain, to a thing the Conservative Party has done by accident, & obviously no part of it’s true but commentators are just…ignoring that bit? And/or repeating it?
- If somebody said the New Statesman has made a massive contribution to the UK which they will not denigrate, in the course of launching a document which says the New Statesman has done incalculable damage to the UK, would that make it easier to understand
- Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
- Wild how commentators agreed a few years ago that the real hard work of leadership - Kinnock, Smith & Blair’s triumphs all rolled into one extraordinary package - was shouting down some activists and making conference sing the national anthem. And now it sounds like that was not the case after all.
- [tutting] I’m sorry sir Keir but the “demographic effect” won’t be “tangible” enough…the uh “national complexion” will look the same 🧐
- On the News Agents, Emily explains that Starmer will never say “Enoch had a point” dot dot dot, [deep breath] BUT
- Emily explains that “you can’t imagine for a second that there was a racist overtone or undertone to Starmer’s language, but there was a sense of keeping the indigenous separate to the newcomer”. LOL, LADS, HONESTLY, what the fuck do you think you are doing
- I’m not making this shit up
- Absolutely incredible that Starmer’s using the numbers from the Ukraine & Hong Kong schemes as the basis for this point. Yet to see a single line of this that wouldn’t disintegrate at the first even slightly serious question
- “Prime minister, the ‘experiment in open borders’ appears to consist in large part of refugees from allied countries. Which you support. Would you care to comment.” “[whispering] Morgan you said this wouldn’t happen”
